dlgn wrote:Social justice isn't a "hobby" any more than cancer research.
Sand, wouldn't you be a bit touchy if you were trying to get people to understand problems they don't face and they were constantly mocking you? The whole "oversensitive social justice warrior with a victimization complex" stereotype was created by racists, homophobes, and the like to get people not to take social justice seriously. It isn't very hard--they just need an excuse. It's a lot easier to say that activists are oversensitive than to admit that you might need to change your behavior, and a lot easier to believe they have a victimization complex than to consider that you might have unfair social advantages.
Now, I don't want to get into a big, flamey argument on the forums about this again. If you really want to argue with me, I suppose you can email me. But I was just trying to figure out what dragon was talking about, and given the hashtag and some stereotypes about social justice, it seemed a likely candidate.
Mate, I've marched, protested, worked in orphanages, funded a medical clinic in a mud hut village, wrote my thesis on social justice issues relating to the Church and donated thousands upon thousands of my own money to various causes. I've been an activist since you were probably in diapers if not before. Do not presume to know me.
I'm telling you that if you see mockery in every shadow, you will get nowhere as no one will listen. Passion is good until it starts to take itself so seriously it shuts everyone down that doesn't feel exactly the same way. If you want to be heard, you have to grow a sense of humor and a thicker skin, that way when you DO speak up, people don't roll their eyes and say "there goes dlgn again..." without reading what you actually wrote.
/end rant, I'm going to get some coffee.
